Inter-firm technology spillover and the "virtuous cycle" of photovoltaic development in Japan

Technological Change and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 127-159

  Watanabe, Chihiro ^a   Griffy Brown, Charla ^a   Zhu, Bing ^a   Nagamatsu, Akira ^a  

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